Enterprise Architect : Infrastructure

The Infrastructure architect will be part of the Core Technology Platforms team that supports our core infrastructure services used by various towers within IT. 

This role is responsible for 

• Designing and ensuring infrastructure blueprints that support current and future business objectives.
• Direction, performance, standards and ongoing health of infrastructure architecture and the creation/updates to key EA deliverables
• Support solution development efforts and IT Governance processes

This role will work with various internal stakeholders and managed service partners to influence and drive adoption of published standards and best practices.

To be successful in this role, you will be someone that has experience developing technology architecture, cloud savvy and consistently keeping trends of emerging technologies that drives business value.

Description

• Develop and document standards, policies, principles and best practices on existing and future infrastructure architecture and platform
• Conduct end to end analysis of technologies, including operational and cost aspects to form feedback loop to influence infrastructure designs and strategies that will improve service, provide better cost efficiency and increased resiliency
• Collaborate with stakeholders to make strategic decisions on leveraging new infrastructure solutions, platforms or technologies that’s in line with company standards, security and sustainability  
• Work with internal teams, vendors and delivery teams to design, build strategies and capabilities to provide fit for purpose cloud infrastructure and solutions to accelerate the migration of on-prem workloads to cloud
• Develop and maintain infrastructure technology roadmaps and identify opportunities that can create value or innovation for the organisation

Key Responsibilities 

Infrastructure Architecture

• Support in solution development as Infrastructure architect on how to best leverage the infrastructure architecture, standards, best practices, assets and frameworks
• Define logical software and hardware capabilities (including IT infrastructure, middleware, networks, communications, processing and standards) to support business, data and application services 
• Assess current technology capability
• Determine major solution components

Infrastructure Architecture Planning

• Responsible for the maintenance and execution of the Enterprise Infrastructure Architectural planning process 
• Responsible for the assembly of a complete enterprise target infrastructure architecture
• Develop Infrastructure Architecture Roadmaps 
• Accountable for the Infrastructure Architecture Roadmap

Solution Architecture

• Responsible for assuring the alignment of infrastructure architecture to the target by decision and coordination across projects and the enterprise

Infrastructure Architectural Capabilities & Assets

• Accountable for definition of infrastructure requirements and structure
• Responsible for the definition and development of principles, guidelines, services, components, tools, standards, assets and frameworks required to support Dyson’s Infrastructure architecture and even more detailed process modeling
• Accountable for maintaining Dyson’s Infrastructure framework
• Provide architectural support to operations and project delivery teams

Performance Management of the Enterprise Architecture

• Accountable for defining key indicators of the performance of Infrastructure Architecture
• Accountable for the performance of Infrastructure Architecture

EA Communication & Awareness

• Contribute to and maintain IA assets on the EA Portal/SharePoint
• Socialize and Evangelize EA community
• Advocate Infrastructure Architecture to programs and projects

Main deliverables

• Enterprise Infrastructure architecture Planning
• Dyson target state Infrastructure architecture
• Infrastructure architecture performance reporting
• Infrastructure Architecture Artifacts
• Infrastructure Architecture standards, principles and guidelines
• Education & Training material

Key qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent technical certifications
• Minimum of 5 years of experience of working in IT infrastructure engineering/architecture for medium to large enterprises
• Good working experience with private and public cloud infrastructure with strong data centre and network acumen
• Experience with automation, configuration and orchestration tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, etc will be advantageous
• Team player with strong analytical skills and the ability to understand and resolve complex problems
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to clearly communicate ideas and solutions to different audience
• GCP, AWS or Azure solutions architect certification will be a plus

Skills

• Understanding of the infrastructure architecture discipline, processes, concepts and best practices
• Ability to determine the architectural implications of the business requirements to infrastructure architecture
• Infrastructure Design
• Systems Integration
• Solutions Modeling
• Analytical, Structured

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.